Biogenic sulfuric acid attack on different types of commercially produced concrete sewer pipes

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 293-301

  Gutiérrez Padilla, Ma Guadalupe D ^a   Bielefeldt, Angela ^a   Ovtchinnikov, Serguei ^b   Hernandez, Mark ^a   Silverstein, Joann ^a  

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Degradation (C); Microbial activity; Sulfate attack (C); Waste management (E)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL WASTEWATER; BIOACTIVE SYSTEMS; CONCRETE SAMPLES; CONCRETE SEWERS; DOMESTIC MANUFACTURERS; FOREIGN COUNTRIES; HIGH-QUALITY CONCRETE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MULTIPLE SPECIES; SEWER PIPES; SHORT TERM; SULFATE ATTACK; SULFATE ATTACK (C); SULFURIC ACID ATTACK; WATER-CEMENT RATIO;

ACIDS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CEMENTS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETE PRODUCTS; CORROSION RATE; DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; PIPE; SEWERS; SULFURIC ACID; WASTEWATER;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 72049088824     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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